Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

Islands are famous for producing some of the world's strangest creatures, and now a new international study shows that the ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a new study in the journal Evolution, researchers ...

Front Cover; Paleobiology of Giant Flightless Birds; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. General Introduction; 1.1. Bird evolution; 1.2. Extant large ...

Islands are known for producing unusual animals, and a newly studied extinct bird from Hawaii may be one of the strangest yet ...

Aotearoa New Zealand's flightless parrot, the k k p , evolved two different color types to potentially help them avoid detection by a now-extinct apex predator, researchers report. Aotearoa New ...

Evolution often involves losing traits like eyesight or flight when they are no longer advantageous, demonstrating a focus on ...

Paleontologists have uncovered an exceptionally complete skull of a massive bird that lived 45 million years ago. This fossilized skull belonged to now-extinct Diatryma, a flightless bird that reached ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers report on the ...

The egg definitely came before the chicken in this case — the skeleton is from a modern adult kiwi, the egg from its much bigger, long-extinct cousin, Aepyornis maximus. That's a surprise, because it ...